Philosophy by the Way

Random quote A moment’s reflection reveals the deep counterintuitiveness of lines: That in a culture with an increasing sense of impatient ...

Photo taken in Amersfoort, NL, on the Boogschutterplein At the end of my last blog I raised the problem that often it is not easy to say whe...

Random quote Whichever side a crime comes from, whether it is in the name of the throne or the state, it is equally appalling, godless and ...

AI photo by https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generator and edited by me. In my blog last week, I stated that I don’t perform an actio...

Random quote Science is a form of arrogance control . Carol Travis (1944-) and Elliot Aronson (1932-)

In my blog two weeks ago, I argued that waiting – if it is not a waiting that happens to you, because, for instance, you are in a lift that ...

Random quote Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) wrote about 250 years ago: Nature’s productive capacity is so great that t...

Bus stop in Paris My readers may have noticed that I have become increasingly interested in “boring” questions of daily life, such as waitin...

My philosophical blog reached a milestone: Today my blog passed the magical limit of ONE MILLION views . I started writing these blogs 1...

Anonymous author. Music by Henry Le Bailly (158?-1637) Sung by Montserrat Figueras

Two weeks ago, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado received the Nobel Peace Prize, although a narcissistic political leader cl...

Random quote I want to do AI my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing, so that I can do ...

Selfie Narcissism is a characteristic of some political leaders. It’s a characteristic that brought them to the top. Narcissism is not only ...

Random quote “I have done that,” says my memory. ‘I cannot have done that,” says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually – my memory y...

The fallacy “Guilt by Association”, discussed in my last blog, is related to two other fallacies, which I have already treated before: argum...

Random quote The translation of our social relationships, for example friendship, into a matter of investment and benefits seems to be guid...

Photo taken at Fort Breendonk, Belgium, a former fortification,  which  served as a Nazi prison camp during World War II It occurs so often ...

Selfie A selfie is an ideal self-representation that derives its strength from a public relationship that everyone can establish and no lon...

In his essay “ Of three employments ” ( Essays , III-3), Montaigne distinguishes between dealing with friends, with women, and with books. H...

Random quote The societies wherein less disparity is permitted between masters and servants seem to me the most equitable. Michel de Monta...

It is an often-used practise in negotiations, for example in the business world and in politics: The so-called salami tactics, also called s...

Random quote I never travel without books. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

Rokin Undergroun d Station, Amsterdam Waiting. Everybody does it and spends much time on it. Therefore, it is surprising how little attentio...

Random quote Philosophy is the entirety of all primitive propositions that are supposed to be true without evidence from the various scienc...

Passengers waiting for the train in a metro stattion in Rotterdam You find it in many big cities: the metro, underground, subway, tube, or h...

Random quote If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the t...

I have written here already more about him, but in these days that violence and power are so on the foreground in the news, I cannot resist ...

Random quote Conducting our public discourse as if it were possible to outsource moral and political judgment to markets, or to experts and...

La Gleize, Belgium: Monument to the victims of the Second World War Many people, including most politicians, are talking about violence only...